Former KGB and CIA Spies Recall the Battle for Berlin | Cold War

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For 50 years, Berlin became synonymous with the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war between the US and the Soviet bloc. Thousands of KGB or CIA, agents observed each other, cogs in the biggest information war in history.
But the war between the secret services was one dimension of a much larger conflict. A confrontation that almost boiled over just under the surface of the cold war. Economic pressures, secret diplomacy and espionage were the hallmarks of this hidden war that never turn into armed conflict. An underground war between two institutions, without the knowledge of official diplomacy.
In this spy documentary, we hear from former CIA and KGB agents and discover the hidden face of the cold war.
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@edwardloomis887 9 месяцев назад

People today don't understand what crossing a line that could not be crossed means as described at 49:17. I was an American Soldier stationed in West Berlin, and the Wall prevented us from crossing into the east. Returning after the Wall fell, my highest priority was walking through Brandenburg Gate. After I did it, I found a Cafe and savored a glass of Sekt

@happynowfarms 9 месяцев назад

I was stationed in Berlin after the wall dropped til the deactivation in 94, going into the East was like going back in time. Was also stationed in West Germany when the wall dropped in Nov 89. Was interesting to being on both sides, the people of Berlin had a total 180 attitude of those in the West like Nuremberg my first duty station.

@sc1338 9 месяцев назад

Blake isn’t laughing now 😂. Your side lost

@williamwest9204 9 месяцев назад

And our side borrowed ideas and continues on doing terrible things

@joshf3861 9 месяцев назад

@@williamwest9204like committing war crimes and genocide in Ukraine

@williamwest9204 9 месяцев назад

@@joshf3861 funding it yes, also dont forget obama allowed a coup to overthrow the previous democratic elected president in ukraine.

@RebeccaOre 9 месяцев назад

Any small nation in its dealings with the empires is like a mouse having to choose between cats as friends.

@violagentsch 9 месяцев назад

That dude's laughter is a crime by itself.

@HandyMan657 9 месяцев назад

Excellent video, thank you. I do think you're wrong about the threats from abroad, however. Cheers

@katherinecollins4685 9 месяцев назад

Very interesting 😊

@mikepxg6406 10 месяцев назад

Excellent documentary. so interesting. Thank you.

@fionad9913 10 месяцев назад

Many of the spies (Markus Wolf, Gunter Guillaume) bear more than a passing resemblance to George Smiley (and not to James Bond).

@feliscorax 9 месяцев назад

Yep. Total grey men. So completely unremarkable to look at they simply blend into the background. In another life, they’d be serial killers.

@offcenterconcepthaus 10 месяцев назад

Production/editing is *on point*.

@peterbradshaw8018 9 месяцев назад

Larry Laker deserves a mention.

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 10 месяцев назад

It was informative, truthful, and thrilled watching 👀 documentary....thank you ( Hit history) channel

@rotnem0017 9 месяцев назад

If your opponent is complimenting you at how good you are it means that your not a threat to them but rather feeding into your stupidity

@seanmchenry551 Месяц назад

my little green grasshopper.

@richardsimms251 9 месяцев назад

I would prefer to live under the American ideology than the Soviet ideology ANYDAY. RS. Canada

@sc1338 9 месяцев назад

Same. America isn’t perfect, but they usually have the right mindset.

@SlurpeeBoy9999 9 месяцев назад

These days, what's the difference?

@RebeccaOre 9 месяцев назад

There are places with a wider range of political options than the US.

@user-yl3zp8sh7h 9 месяцев назад

What is music's name at 12.00 minutes en documentary? There is someone knowing that music name? Really it is well-fitted with documentary.

@FarrYaweh 10 месяцев назад

Excellent documentary as always. Love the channel and HHTV. Appreciate you showing both sides. Even if one is objectively wrong.

@desydukuk291 10 месяцев назад

And today?

@user-fh7xk3xm1g 9 месяцев назад

Story ko history banane ka alag hi maja । hai। Story 🎯 hit kaise होगा जैसे कोई ............................fill in blanks. Okay 🆗

@zhsult 9 месяцев назад

translations have differences from the original message of the speakers

@garyorourke4524 10 месяцев назад

So that woman who admitted to passing information about Nuclear weapons to the Russians wasn't put in jail or up against a wall? I thought doing something like that would result in execution.

@brandonlewis2599 10 месяцев назад

You must have missed the part about there not really being any morality to the whole game. She was lucky. I dunno, read some John Le Carre novels, or even Alan Furst. The agents are just pawns, and they usually do just end up shot. But not always -- if they have valuable information, and they're in the right place at the right time, they get whisked away for debriefing and given a new identity. That old woman probably had to live under an assumed name in a foreign country, and lamenting the whole time how she was played by that dashing young Romeo. I think that's punishment enough.

@garyorourke4524 10 месяцев назад

@brandonlewis2599 You think a new name and life, is punishment enough for trading nuclear weapon secrets? You also admitted to they're being a lack of morality and spys being simply shot, wonder why "She" wasn't shot.

@mebsrea 9 месяцев назад

@@brandonlewis2599 More to the point, the death penalty was banned in West Germany after 1949. East Germany continued to execute alleged spies (and others) until 1981. Of course, it continued until 1989 to murder without trial those attempting to escape Communist dictatorship.

@jonnyd9351 9 месяцев назад

Maybe that fact tells you more than you think.

@rokuthedog 9 месяцев назад

read the secret team by fletcher prouty

@zillsburyy1 10 месяцев назад

KG USE TO B

@JameaJimea1175 9 месяцев назад

😂 can’t believe thats the first time I’ve seen that

@user-nh9pd7ns2b 13 дней назад

Sadly nothing has changed.

@johnbecker5213 9 месяцев назад

now we know how weak they are and were ussr nothing but paper tiger

@williamwest9204 9 месяцев назад

Lol your wrong on so many levels

@johnbecker5213 9 месяцев назад

showing weakness@@williamwest9204

@williamrobinson7435 10 месяцев назад

In re the origin > purpose of this film, to what in truth does the acronym DOC refer?

@chrislambourne4275 10 месяцев назад

Your editing is dodgy. The quote at 6:27 "America has never been in the intelligence business" sounds extremely truncated. And we know that the USA has had intelligence systems in operation from the 18th century in its war of independence.

@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus 10 месяцев назад

Exactly. There's whole books on the American intelligence business. The American intelligence "business" controlled hollywood during WW2.

@thomasbell7033 10 месяцев назад

@@deesus1085 No sane person would read "communists" into that comment. Yours, however, reveals you to be a squawking parrot.

@twonumber22 10 месяцев назад

How do you know the editing is dodgy? Did you see a longer version?

@woahhbro2906 9 месяцев назад

It's true that the US has had intel agencies going back to the revolutionary times, like the Culper Ring, but the US tended to create intel agencies when needed during times of war, which is what they did with the COI and OSS in WW2. But the Soviets had a continuing intel/secret police agency for decades, even in "peace" time. So the Soviets did have an advantage at that time. The early days of the CIA had a lot of "cowboys" in it, who probably resembled daredevil special ops types, rather than sophisticated intel-gathering agents.

@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus 9 месяцев назад

@@woahhbro2906 The OSS was turned into the C.I.A. so that the government didn't lose that knowledge of how to conduct intelligence activities. The British taught them mostly everything during WW2. It was British intelligence and propaganda that was used to con the U.S. into WW2. FDR committed treason.

@danamfischer5101 2 дня назад

These people are evil

@conceptalfa 10 месяцев назад

👍👍👍

@elcomandante6855 10 месяцев назад

First is here....others are clones🤣

@williamrobinson7435 10 месяцев назад

The denomination of the original production company of this intrigues me. Babel DOC. But WHO, amid the incessance of voices, has the controllata? I said "WHO'S GOT THE ****ING REMOTE CONTROL? 🤣Nice one team. ❤️👍🌟

@sunrae3971 9 месяцев назад

Typical Soviets taking credit when actually the east german Stasi took the Job.

@user-bb6uh2kj8e 8 месяцев назад

tell me how can a people who is occupied take charge? its like saying the iraqi intelligence service was in charge under the usa occupation

@sunrae3971 8 месяцев назад

@@user-bb6uh2kj8e Well Germany is not Iraq. The Stasi was not simply a KGB Sub-Division, of course they had to align to the "great brother" on major issues, yet they had their own interests. The KGB would never had the chance to place a Asset near a West-German Chancellor etc. Also ruZZian are ruZZian and Germans are not. Complete different mindset occupied or not.

@user-bb6uh2kj8e 8 месяцев назад

just say you hate russian@@sunrae3971 KGB owned your sweed litle stasi

@sunrae3971 8 месяцев назад

@@user-bb6uh2kj8e Now i have to list my Russian friends?🤣I give a F on the Stasi and KGB both are evil empires. You Keyboard warrior unlike my family never witness any of them.

@ericgibson2079 9 месяцев назад

In God We Trust is not a logo...

@dmeinhertzhagen8764 10 месяцев назад

Still releasing reruns of reruns!

@yakuza3d Месяц назад

Да были времена! USSR ❤

@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus 10 месяцев назад

How is this reliable?

@brenryan1 10 месяцев назад

How isn't it? Also you made your comment 12mins after it was posted.

@robertsears8323 10 месяцев назад

Every aby if the evil Russians say is a massive and outright lie as none of these monsters know h8w to tell the truth

@robertsears8323 10 месяцев назад

Go away Russian troll

@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus 10 месяцев назад

@@brenryan1 because the mindset of the American intelligence community is that the American public is as good as the enemy. Because the American public doesn't think long term enough to know what is in their long term interests, they know Americans would object to how the intelligence community operates if they were told the truth. And if the American public knows, then its as good as the enemy knowing, so they only tell you what they are fine with the enemy knowing... which can be lies to deceive the enemy. So by that logic in their mind, the American public must also be deceived to win battles.

@PaladinDansesGirlfriend 10 месяцев назад

Frist

@isabellesullivan-appleton7521 10 месяцев назад

sounds like a german general

@MusketeerTed 10 месяцев назад

First

@HauntedXXXPancake 5 месяцев назад

Meh, Rather one-sided. The Russians certainly weren't "always one step ahead of the Americans". Further more, this pretty much only covers Russian successes, while in reality, the Americans had spices in the highest places, like Soviet Military Intelligence. And it wasn't dumb, little secretaries, but the men in charge.

@jamjardj1974 24 дня назад

Spices?

@conceptalfa 10 месяцев назад

Teufels berg today is dedicated to art??? My God, is the guy completely blind, what art??? This horrendous scarecrow should have taken down a long time ago!!!

@lewielutz4661 9 месяцев назад

British Intel service didn't exist then...

@sc1338 9 месяцев назад

Wrong

@williamgill5286 9 месяцев назад

if they didnt exist then what do you call the british intel service of pre and post ww2??!!!?!?!?!??!???!

@BigHenFor 9 месяцев назад

Ignorance is a grave error. The Sun never set on the British Empire. Do you honestly think that such a large empire that had parts in every continent on the planet could survive as long as it did without an intelligence service? Or defeated it's enemies without one? How else does one keep an eye on them? Once the Telegraph and the Telephone were invented, the modern game of spying came to it's own, but even before that in the Napoleonic Wars, the British had spies and agents, sending back intelligence to Britain and it's allies. So, try reading up on a subject before opining on it.

@lewielutz4661 9 месяцев назад

I was being sarcastic….

@pergotfredsen4681 29 дней назад

A lot of sheep

@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus 10 месяцев назад

You mention Stalin unleashed an ideological battle, but you ignore that America unleashed an ideological battle...

@conceptalfa 10 месяцев назад

Yepp, against the communists within the US, nothing wrong with it as I hate communists too, but than they can't call themselves a free democratic country!!! Like Deutsche Demokratische Republik???🧐🤔😃

@kyleshertz2277 10 месяцев назад

America adopted Nazis after the war, Stalin executed them. I think the superior ideology is evident.

@kyleshertz2277 10 месяцев назад

@@deesus1085 You mean the USA, which literally took in Nazis after the war? Has waged war around the globe in the name of profits? I found the soft spot, and it's between your ears 🙄

@1Rab 10 месяцев назад

Were they comparable in scale and severity?

@kyleshertz2277 10 месяцев назад

@@1Rab No. America is much, much worse and continues to be.

@sc1338 9 месяцев назад

America is so awesome. In the end they always do what’s best.

@williamwest9204 9 месяцев назад

Lol if money is to be made sure

@RebeccaOre 9 месяцев назад

Last of the three empires standing. No so nice if you look at Latin America and SE Asia (the SE Asians don’t like the Chine either.

@Grove-street677 4 месяца назад

Nah 😂😂😂

@jamjardj1974 24 дня назад

Naive of you.

@rachellebelcastro911 9 месяцев назад

Odd, didn't see Ukraine as a country back then 🤔 Probably because they weren't!

@marcussoininen2084 9 месяцев назад

Your ignorance isn't something you should show off as a source of pride.

@RomanGolubev_A 9 месяцев назад

Ukraine was there, it was one of 15 soviet republics, hear: Ukrainian Republic!

@janehollander1934 10 месяцев назад

Oh, please don't narrate in English over foreign speakers in your documentaries. (Just use subtitles). Because you lose so much of intonation and atmosphere. And it's something the Germans & French do...becauce they think their audience is too dumb (or refuse) to be multilingual. Those (many) of us who watch HH are quite able to speak/understand several languages. Be better HH✌🏻.

@richie4830 10 месяцев назад

What about people with Dyslexia or eyesight issues, who may not be able to read subtitles ?

@janehollander1934 10 месяцев назад

Sorry dear@@richie4830, I truly hadn't thought of that✌🏻😐.

@Nat3ski 10 месяцев назад

Ignorant and wrong

@gladlawson61 10 месяцев назад

I'm happy with the voice over because I cant see that well or leave the room. Dont change because some douche thinks they're better than you

@sc1338 9 месяцев назад

@@janehollander1934I I understand what you’re saying, but English spoken is easier for the majority of people. i think they should make two versions though

@RAF_T-54 Месяц назад

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